Blood on the Asphalt biker
Fully, completely, in the way a engine sounds when every component is correctly aligned and the system runs as its maker intended, a deep, resonant, whole-body certainty that was not power in any conventional sense of the word but was something older and more fundamental.
It was the frequency of a person who had decided what they were.
She broadcast it.
Adaeze's amplification met it and expanded its radius like a stone dropped into still water, the rings moving outward. The other seven carriers felt it reach them and opened to it, each one adding their own frequency to the resonance, Sera's structural clarity and Cael's atmospheric reading and Petra's quiet, ancient-young certainty and all t